HP Media Centre PC 7250 can I add a hard drive?

\015 I have a HP Media Centre PC 7250 and would like to add a hard drive from an old PC rather than buy one of the removable media drives HP sells. Has anyone an idea about where and how to fit it in the case? Can the Personal Media Drive compartment framework be removed to make space??\015

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